Nagios Fusion 2012 Mike Guthrie Twitter: mguthrie88 Projects:

20122 Goals of Nagios Fusion Central Viewing Dashboard Data aggregation Data visualization Oversee both Core and XI Servers Simplify distributed monitoring No additional addons required Easy and limitless scaling Reduces *some* scaling challenges User Customization Build your own interface

20123 Scope: Central Viewing Dashboard Don’t recreate what Nagios already does Read only viewing No checks, no alerts, no host/service reports Summarize the data: High-level viewing Visualizations Totals Unhandled problems

20124 Simplify Distributed Monitoring Having more consolidated Nagios instances is not bad Localized configuration management can be split by teams, geographic location, subnet, or even hostgroups One broken server does not break them all Simplifies scope of the individual Nagios server No more boxes in use than with other methods: 1 Nagios + 3 Mod Gearman / DNX + 1 Ndoutils offloaded = 5 machines. Works with vanilla XI or Core, no addons required. Fusion has minimal hardware requirements

20125 Backend Polling Fusion polls each Nagios instance at regular intervals Minimal performance impact even with many users Data is cached locally, UI uses local cache

20126 Fusion Users Home Menu consists of user-defined dashboards

20127 Views Rotation Views Rotation can rotate through any page in Fusion, child Nagios servers, or external sites.

20128 Available Dashlets Fused Status Summary Tactical Overview Recent Alerts Top Alert Producers Host or Service Health (Bar Graphs) Alert Histogram Graph Explorer Performance Graphs – XI Only Hostgroup or Servicegroup Summary – XI Only Host or Service Status – XI Only BPI Group Status – XI 2012 Only More on the way!

2011 Nagios World Conference 9

Fusion Development Radar Deployable Dashboards NOC Center Component – Shows an aggregation of all unhandled problems across all servers Nagios Server Metrics – Displays Nagios metrics across all fused servers Stored login credentials per user Developer documentation: Adding callbacks to the Fusion backend poller Creating XI Dashlets Historical statistics on the server level